John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
充满了童趣，美国人会很有共鸣吧？关于那个时代。
拍给私人回忆的情怀电影，他爸真的跟我部门领导一个个性
挺有意思的电影，展示了60～70年代一个标准的美国家庭的所有生活细节。一大家子七八口人，节俭的父母想尽一切办法省钱。妈妈会在省钱的同时每天做饭不重样。爸爸看电影会在车里藏小孩逃几张票，偷邻居家的木板，加油时一滴不漏。
其实单纯童年日常生活就挺好看的了，少年登月部分反而有些脱节，有点强加主旨的感觉。虽然是美国孩子的1960s，但也对个别情节产生了共鸣，比如手拉手冲过去的游戏、躲避球、玩伴们关于音乐的讨论和换台时的打闹。
这件事感觉就是属于美国人独有的美国特色，可能只有美国人才看着觉得有意思吧
角度是刁的，林克莱特是惯性好评的，然而现在我这种重口味，是觉得这故事交给屎尿屁团队去拍会更喜闻乐见一些。
真的是跟这个破导演对不上电波，以为烂番茄高分媒体狂赞是有多好看，结果还是高估了文青心中对60年代的缅怀，实在太难看了
SXSW首映礼。太喜欢了。天上的生活是一片银灰色和只能听到自己呼吸的孤独，地上的生活是抢电视剧的六个兄弟姐妹和爸妈、休斯顿的夏天、冰苹果和冰淇淋、和邻居家小孩互相使坏的游戏。奥斯汀和休斯顿的复古回忆，越战、冷战、饥荒等宏大的名词乱飘。40万人参与了阿波罗项目。天上和地下糅在一起，我们也都是相连的。
爱在墨西哥湾和月球静海。德州人林克莱特，把《爱在黎明破晓前》系列给搬上了月球。在“人类迈出一大步”的1969年，绝大多数电影都会选择呈现——土星5号运载火箭搭载阿波罗11号在烈焰中摇晃着大地升空——“6亿人看电视直播”般的盛况，但林用怀旧风的转描动画（甚把胶片和模拟电视动画化了！），絮絮叨叨69年的休斯顿——这座因国防/二战、航空航天和石油工业新兴的典型美国城市里——一普通中产家庭男孩童年生活手记。尼尔走出登月舱的壮丽瞬间，男孩却在父母怀中睡去，做了一个独驾阿波罗10½号登月的梦。似查泽雷的《登月第一人》，又一用私人化叙事缅怀黄金岁月电影。69年的男孩幻想20世纪末去月球度蜜月，或攒一年钱去火星，但直到22年也无人重返月球，只有电视剧《为全人类》在续写那个浪漫、壮阔的平行宇宙的故事。
从画风到故事都很怀旧。那个年代的（美国）生活的确很令人向往。特别是如果忽略美苏竞争的背景，人类对太空的探索本身就是追求生命终极疑惑之解答的浪漫旅途。只是林克莱特充满私人回忆的故事用了太多流水账般的旁白，特别像一个老人在一个周末家庭聚会的午后在你耳边絮絮叨叨。动画形式虽然带来了怀旧的画面风格，但严重浪费了动画应有的更肆意的想像。
喜欢，即使没有经历过也会怀念那个大费周章只为了去月球上看看的“浪漫”年代
一部支教题材的电影，朴实无华，真切感人，用最小的细节、最生活化的表现形式传递出韩老师、梅朵和他大哥的善良、真诚，以及孩子们的天真灿烂。韩老师对孩子们的无私的爱、孩子们对知识的渴求交相呼应，镜头透过恶劣的环境，衬出存在人们心底的真、善、美。
很好的-部电影，画面很清晰人物很真
最秀美的风景，最可爱的人。
整部电影，我一直都为梅朵感动，她从失去哥哥，再到弟弟，最后是丈夫，可她没有倒下。第二个就是韩老师无私的精神，把每一个孩子都是看的主要
有一句话说的挺好的，所有的学生都是韩老师和女主的孩子，他们一辈子的付出也算没有遗憾了！
故事中规中矩，演员的演技和情感表达都很不错，挺打动人的。
虽然套了个虚构的外壳，但用美式动画展现了美国六十年代诸多真实记忆，与其说是戏说历史，不如说是一种缅怀。
Back in the time when American people live the American Dream.
一遍遍追述自己的少年时代，只能昭告世人自己真的老了。
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